Re:David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a...
by abalone on Sunday December 08, 2013 @05:44PM
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> It took government A BILLION DOLLARS just to make a website that the private sector could have delivered for A THOUSAND TIMES less money and in a third of the time
Source? AFAIK not even the craziest right-wing conspiracy blog out there claims healthcare.gov cost a billion dollars to create.
The Washington Post has the best reporting on it so far. It puts the figure for the website development and support itself at $174M and casts doubt on the wildest one out there ($600M). Also, there are significant costs on the IRS side of things that by definition couldn't be delivered by the private sector.
Source? AFAIK not even the craziest right-wing conspiracy blog out there claims healthcare.gov cost a billion dollars to create.
The Washington Post has the best reporting on it so far. It puts the figure for the website development and support itself at $174M and casts doubt on the wildest one out there ($600M). Also, there are significant costs on the IRS side of things that by definition couldn't be delivered by the private sector.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/10/...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/wp/2013/11/...